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Cayo Norte, formerly West Key [1] or North East Key is the largest privately owned island in Puerto Rico and is currently the property of Google co-founder Larry Page [2] via SVI Investments, Inc. [3] The island is located about 0.6 nautical mile (1.0 km) northeast of Culebra Island. [4] It lies 21 nautical miles (36 km) east of Puerto Rico and ...
List of islands of Puerto Rico. Isla Palomino. Cayo Matías in Salinas. Cayo Aurora in Guanica. This is a list of islands of Puerto Rico . The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has over 143 islands, keys, islets, and atolls. Only the main island of Puerto Rico (3,424 sq mi [8,868 km2]), and the islands of Vieques (51 sq mi [130 km 2 ]), and Culebra ...
UTC−4 ( AST) ZIP Code. 00765. Area code. 787/939. Major routes. Vieques ( / viˈeɪkəs / ⓘ; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbjekes] ), officially Isla de Vieques, is an island and municipality of Puerto Rico, a United States territory in the northeastern Caribbean. Vieques is part of a group of islands sometimes known as the Spanish Virgin ...
787/939. Major routes. Isla Culebra ( Spanish pronunciation: [kuˈleβɾa], Snake Island) is an island, town and municipality of Puerto Rico and geographically part of the Spanish Virgin Islands. It is located approximately 17 miles (27 km) east of the Puerto Rican mainland, 12 miles (19 km) west of St. Thomas and 9 miles (14 km) north of Vieques.
Columbus named the island San Juan Bautista, in honor of Saint John the Baptist, while the capital city was named Ciudad de Puerto Rico ("Rich Port City"). [15] Eventually traders and other maritime visitors came to refer to the entire island as Puerto Rico, while San Juan became the name used for the main trading/shipping port and the capital ...
Topographic map of Puerto Rico, 1952. Puerto Rico is mostly mountainous with large coastal areas in the north and south. The main mountain range is called Cordillera Central (Central Mountain Range). The highest elevation in Puerto Rico, Cerro de Punta at 4,393 feet (1,339 m), [4] is located in this range.
93001398 [1] U.S. National Natural Landmark. Designated. 1975. Mona Island ( Spanish: Isla de Mona) is the third-largest island of the Puerto Rican archipelago, after the main island of Puerto Rico and Vieques. It is the largest of three islands in the Mona Passage, a strait between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, the others being ...
Isla Magueyes ( Isle of Maguey) is a 7.2 hectares (0.028 sq mi; 0.072 km 2) island 50 metres (160 ft) from the southwest coast of the island of Puerto Rico. [1] It is encircled with mangrove and has an interior of dry scrub habitat, where it gets its name. [2] It is named for the presence of many century plants or maguey ( Agave americana ...